Ultimately this film is about
loss of innocence as seen through the eyes of a young girl.
While some may argue
the loss of innocence as the deeper meaning behind the saying, I can argue that nothing ever stays on top speaking in terms of Hollywood.
Not exact matches
Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final
loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that
innocence has been wholly swallowed up by experience; (3) no other Christian artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space
as the paradoxical presence
of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian artists in identifying the actual passion
of sex
as the most immediate epiphany
of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just
as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role
of the female
as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision
of the total kenotic movement
of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God
as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric
of Christian seers and artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision
of the full identity
of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10)
as the sole creator
of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision
of a total cosmic reversal
of history.
It isn't
as much for Brittanie that I mourn, but it is the
loss of innocence.
Writer / director Terrence Malick («Badlands» / «The Thin Red Line» / «The New World») superbly shoots it
as an enthralling mood piece, that lets its romanticized story
of the human condition be spelled out visually to overwhelm us with its deep emotional impact
as a parable
of love and the
loss of innocence with biblical proportions.
superbly shoots it
as an enthralling mood piece, that lets its romanticized story
of the human condition be spelled out visually to overwhelm us with its deep emotional impact
as a parable
of love and the
loss of innocence with biblical proportions.
Later that year, Macdonald appeared in Mike Figgis» The
Loss of Sexual
Innocence, playing the young girlfriend
of the film's protagonist; and in Gregg Araki's Splendor, a romantic comedy in which she played the blue - haired best friend
of the film's heroine.After a slew
of similar supporting roles, including a memorable turn
as the daughter
of Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Colin Firth in My Life So Far, MacDonald was given possibly her biggest break since Trainspotting when Robert Altman cast her
as a lead (albeit one
of many) in Gosford Park (2001).
Innocence has often been a theme
of Mr. Zemeckis's films — not so much its
loss or recovery,
as its stubborn persistence.
Krokidas is instead more concerned with capturing the birth
of a movement through the ultimate
loss of innocence, suggesting that the incident was
as formative for the three poets
as their time at Columbia.
As adapted to the screen by director Gina Prince - Blythewood (Love & Basketball), the story explores a treasure trove
of themes ranging from racism to religion to sisterhood to loneliness to love and
loss of innocence.
(In French with subtitles) The Song
of Sparrows (PG for brief adult language)
Loss of innocence drama, set in Iran, about a recently - fired ostrich farmer (Mohammad Amir Naji) whose family becomes upset about how the naïve country bumpkin has begun to compromise his values in order to make it
as a taxi driver in the city
of Teheran.
The dry black humor that pervades the triumphs and tragedies
of young Oliver's life has the unexpected effervescence
of hyperbole
as the story delves into the dangerous territories
of sex, death, and the
loss of innocence.
Cuesta's reference to director Alan Pakula, killed on the L.I.E. and responsible for a trio
of seminal paranoia thrillers in the seventies (Klute, The Parallax View, All the President's Men), gains an increased level
of resonance
as the cinema
of that decade was a reflection
of another generation's
loss of innocence — one fuelled by the triple - assassinations
of JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King, the gulf created by the free - love and flower - power movements, and the psychological tumult
of Vietnam.
There's the heavy sigh
of melancholy that defines Anderson's whole oeuvre in this second stop - motion piece
of animation, but
as it howls at the
loss of childhood
innocence, it also recreates a little chunk
of magic by hand.
Taken
as a
loss of their
innocence, the film
as a discomfort machine makes some sense.
«I think that ultimately most movies portray vulnerability
as a
loss of innocence, but by the end
of this movie, it's the opposite direction,» says Deutch, who in real life speaks with the same breakneck cadence
as her character.
They share a yearning for freedom
as well
as a name, but once wounded soldiers are brought within the convent's walls, a
loss of innocence is imminent.
It's a compelling premise, using a single, haunting photo
as the launching pad to cross a massive expanse
of ideological ground, touching on the brutality
of war, the
loss of innocence, the balance
of nature, post-colonial arrogance and the dangers
of a military industrial complex driven by profit over protection.
A lot
of gamers point at the
loss of gaming magazines
as an almost
loss of innocence.
Gibbons intends for his paintings to act
as allegories for the
loss of innocence.
«A lurking sense
of finality haunts each character and an inevitable
loss of innocence closes in, just
as winter lays in wait for Summer.»
Mohammed's gold and silver nameplates commemorate those black men and women who were killed by police in 2016, and his penchant for using votive candles in his photographs takes aim at this
loss of innocence; however, here perhaps he is looking at objecthood, and even that
of a photograph,
as a means to tell stories
of resistance and hope.
Her work explores themes such
as death, vulnerability,
loss of innocence, rebirth and redemption and are informed by the experience
of her youth
as a queer, multiracial immigrant in American suburbia.
Among the works included are Jonathan Borofsky's Untitled ping pong table, which all are encouraged to play, it posits the opponents at odds with each other
as one side
of the table is a «plus» and the other is a «minus»; Andreas Gursky's large scale photograph depicts a soccer match between the Dutch and French teams, however with no ball in sight and a player injured on the field, the image speaks to the larger nationalistic ideas
of sports; Mike Kelley's Arena # 2 (Kangaroo) is comprised
of tattered stuffed animals on a used children's blanket, creating a tableaux about
loss of innocence; Kirsten Geisler's interactive female cyborg beckons the viewer with sound recognition software to engage in a dialogue
of sorts; Yinka Shonibare's sculpture Hopscotch incorporates a classic children's game with headless mannequins dressed in Colonial attire and Sol LeWitt plays a game
of chance in his wall drawing # 716 from 1991 in which there are eight possible lines (vertical lines, horizontal lines, arcs, etc) to be placed in each square
of a grid covered wall.
What the sculptor is about to invoke in the new series
of work is yet to be seen, but
as his subjects are consistently children, we may be in for another explorative angle
of the
loss of innocence, hardships and perils
of growing, in personal and universal sense.
Using this
loss of innocence and the awakening
of the desirable and desiring body
as a springboard, Goodman seamlessly traverses a number
of media in her ongoing conversation around female identity and autonomy.
With the sprit
of Martin Kippenberger
as his starting point, Lang renders a world
of innocence, sex, and
loss.